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GAS GENERATOR.

Patented D6026, 1882.

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J. B. LEADLEY & J. HA'NLON.

GAS GENERATOR.

Patented Dec. 26, 1882-.

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GAS GENERATOR.

No. 269,798. Patented Dec. 26, 1882.v

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. NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES E. LEADLEY, F CAMDEN,

NEW JERSEY, AND JOHN HANLON, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

G-AS-GENERATO RI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nb. 269,798, dated December 26, 1852, Application filed July 12 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES E. LEADLEY, of Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, and JOHN HANLON, of the city and county of New York, in the State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Gas- Generator; and we hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact; description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanyiug drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an elevation of the apparatus. Fig.2 is a vertical section on line y y of Fig. 6. Fig. ,3 is a vertical section on the line 00.20 of Fig.5. Fig. dis a horizontal section on the line 2 z of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is ahorizontal sectional view on line' to to, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a view partially in horizontal section and partially in plan.

Our invention relates to an apparatus for generating gas to be used preferably for heating purposes, and has for its object to provide a generator wherein the construction is conducive to economy of fuel and the certain 2 5 production of a good gas, for the purposes desired.

Ourinvention consists in certain details 0t generator fire-chamber.

construction and combinations of devices, as

will hereinafter be fully described, and spe- 0 ciljcally pointed outin the claims.

In the said drawings, A is the generator proper, and B the fire-chamber thereof, and

a the pit beneath the lire-chamber. The superheater A is provided with a passage, a, con-,

5 nectingits interior uptake-flues,F F, and lower chamber, G, with the fire-chamber of the generator A. Oentrally located between lines F F is a main gas-flue, F which passes through the bottom of superheater A into a washcontainiug a body of water, below the surface of which is the mouth of said flue F After the gas rises through the water it escapes through a proper supply-pipe to the point of consumption. Near the upper end of the superheater the chamber P is formed, and isconnected with a draft-flue, H,

and on top of the superheater is a man-hole, I, closed by a suitable cover. The top of the l generator is also provided with a secure cover, 0. An air-pipe, T, passes from a fan-blower, o

vt, into the superheater,and is arranged around pipes or flues F F in a circular vertical coil, a

u, and thence passesinto the pit a beneath the From some convenieiit point steam is conducted through a pipe, 5 S, arranged in a coil on or near the bottom of chamber G, and thence out to the elbow, where air-pipe'T enters pit a, and the steampipe is introduced into the larger or air pipe '1. The products of combustion from the fire- 6o chamber a, rushing into chamber G, super heat the steam in the coil (if-pipe S; and in order to control the amount of heat reaching the superheating-coil of pipe S while the airblastis on, we provide a shield-damper, d, provided with openings, over which slide tiledampers d, by means of a rod, t, the portions of said rod within the chamber protected by cylindrical tiles t t.

The operation is the same as with other apparatus having the general characteristics of this one.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The generator A, provided with the cen- .tral cham ber, B, and the superheater A, provided with a central downward flue, F and a series of uptake-fines, F F, in combination with air-pipe T, passing around fines F F in a vertical return-coil, and thence into ash-pita,

as specified, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The superheater having uptake-lines F F, and return-flue F and chamber G, in combination with superheating steam-pipe S, hav- 8 iuga return-coil near the bottom of said chamber G, and terminating within pit a, and'shielddamper cl (1, arranged above said return-coil, all constructed,arrnnged, and operated as set forth.

JAS. E. L-EADLEY. JOHN HANLON.

Witnesses:

J os. HENGELBROK, M. J. BOYD. 

